| frequency | (noun) the number of observations in a given statistical category | Synonyms: absolute frequency |
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| (noun) the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations | Synonyms: relative frequency |
| (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, oftenness |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| geomancy | (noun) divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) | - |
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| gerontocracy | (noun) a political system governed by old men | - |
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| gynecocracy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynarchy |
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| hesitancy | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitance |
| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| homothecy | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothety |
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| hydromancy | (noun) divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) | - |
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| idiocy | (noun) extreme mental retardation | Synonyms: amentia |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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| (noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immanency | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanence |
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| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| imminency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| impendency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence |
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| impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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| impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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| impotency | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, powerlessness |
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| (noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotence |
| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inadvertency | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness |
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| inanimacy | (noun) (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc). | - |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
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| (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
| incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
| incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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| inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| inconstancy | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: changefulness |
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| (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
| incontinency | (noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinence |
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| incumbency | (noun) the office of an incumbent | - |
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| (noun) a duty that is incumbent upon you | - |
| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: tenure, term of office |
| indecency | (noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| (noun) the quality of being indecent | - |
| indelicacy | (noun) an impolite act or expression | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive | - |
| independency | (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independence |
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| indeterminacy | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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| inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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| inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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| infancy | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: babyhood |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: babyhood, early childhood |
| infrequency | (noun) noteworthy scarcity | Synonyms: rareness, rarity |
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| inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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| inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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| innocency | (noun) an innocent quality or thing or act | - |
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| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| intermittency | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittence |
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| intestacy | (noun) the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will | - |
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| intimacy | (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, familiarity |
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| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, involvement, liaison |
| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
| irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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| jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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| lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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| latency | (noun) the state of being not yet evident or active | - |
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| (noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it | Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time |
| (noun) (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head | Synonyms: rotational latency |
| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| leniency | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: lenience |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, lenience |
| lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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| literacy | (noun) the ability to read and write | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| lunacy | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, madness |
| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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| mobocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: ochlocracy |
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| monochromacy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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| necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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| (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
| nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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| normalcy | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normality |
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| (noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normality |
| numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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| obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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| (noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
| ochlocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: mobocracy |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| papacy | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: pontificate |
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| paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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| parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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| patency | (noun) the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct | - |
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| (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness |
| permanency | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanence |
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| persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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